The Land of Milk and Honey

[T-Max]

Planted my big field today. Made two rounds (8 rows) around the perimeter and a cross through the center with Milo. Planted the rest of the field to soybeans. I’m a month or so I will try to take up the drone for a good shot. Should create some vertical cover and really break up the field. So that’s a 2 acre corn field, about an acre of milo total and 2.75 acres of beans. Should make for a good fall.


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[T-Max]

Here you can see the Kinze 3500 top drives I retrofit to my John Deere 7000. Money well spent. I had to get Kinze 3600 contact wheels to get the size I needed for good contact with my drive wheels. A little math on gear ratios and the planting chart from the 3600 manual is planting just right.

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[Catscratch]

Sorry to hear about your families loss. That's a hard one.

 

[T-Max]

Cruising the plots today and on the way out we passed this little guy. Zoom in on center of pic. Cute buggers…

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[Turkey Creek]

I found one a few days ago. It would hold tight until I got about 5 feet from it then it would bolt and run maybe 30 yards and lay down again. I would guess it was about 2 weeks old. We used to take "goofy selfies" before the days of cell phones when we would stumble onto one while doing field work. The first few days after they are born, they just pretend they are frozen and you can sit or lie down right next to them.

 

[T-Max]

I had the drone up for a few other reasons so I decided to fly down and get an aerial of the plots. Corn in the front, soybeans and Milo in the back. There is a creek crossing in the upper left of the corn field where I plan to have a stand nearby. Orientation is weird as North is to the left. Shaping up nicely. You can see where my corn meter plugged on the second row about halfway through planting. Should make for some good brassica growth in those skips later.

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